Sep 10 2010
Outside Boulder’s Tragedy, a Quiet Wildfire Season
Bathed in cool temperatures in the West and wet weather in the East, most of the U.S. is enjoying a quiet wildfire season.
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Sep 09 2010
Save Me, Seymour! Flytraps, Carnivorous Plants Dwindling Across U.S.
Habitat loss, wildfire suppression, and poaching are combining to push many species to the brink of extinction, despite the fact that science knows very little about them.
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Aug 10 2010
Extreme Weather Fuels Debate Over Global Warming
Record heat and floods in Europe and Asia match climatologists' predictions, but experts are cautious about interpreting events as signs of man-made warming.
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Aug 09 2010
Moscow Deaths Double with Smog, Heat
The smog from the peat and forest fires burning in the countryside outside the city has choked Moscow for days.
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Aug 08 2010
Giant Glacier Breaks on Anniversary of Global Warming
Thirty-five years after the term "global warming" was coined, a stark reminder of its symptoms reared its head in the Arctic.
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Aug 06 2010
Smog from Fires Chokes Moscow
The Russian capital is barely visible under the cloud of smog produced by raging wildfires nearby.
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May 28 2010
Tortured Veggies Better For You?
Stressed carrots can give you a big boost of healthy compounds, according to one Texas A&M researcher. He's looking into the vegetable's response to stress in the hopes of producing more antioxidants than normal.
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Mar 29 2010
Earth’s Biggest Tree Rings Tell Fiery Tales
Fifty-two giant fallen giant sequoias reveal a 3,000-year-old history of fire and drought.
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Mar 23 2010
Controlled Burns Slash Greenhouse Gasses
It turns out we can reduce carbon released from forest fires by igniting fires, ourselves.
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Mar 16 2010
Dinosaurs Choked on Ozone
What killed the dinosaurs? Ok, ok, we know an asteroid did it, roughly, but that made a comparatively small hole in the ground -- what actually killed them? We've heard lots about nuclear winter, global wildfires, all sorts of poisonous ...
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